404s Galore

I have simply question … Did you tried go to Settings->Permalinks and check there e.g Post name in Common Settings Then Save those settings?
This may help.

Should have mentioned it in the initial post, but yes, I did try that. And then tried it again just now to make sure I was doing it exactly how you say. No dice. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Just spitballing here, but is it possible that I needed to set the permalink structure BEFORE doing something else (installing WooCommerce maybe?) and didn’t do it in the right order? I don’t really know, just trying to come up with something, because I’m beyond lost.

You need to save permalinks as something to try whenever urls don’t work. (not before doing something else) Go to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks, and click “Save” even if there are no changes to save. Some commentators advise Saving twice.

Other things to try would be:

– check you are running all latest versions: WP 4.8.2, Storefront 2.2.5 & WC 3.2.1.

– deactivate any other plugins so you have just Storefront and WooCommerce in play. Leave them deactivated until the site works. Then put other plugins back one-by-one and test.

– if you have a cache plugin, flush the cache and deactivate it until everything is working OK. Check if your host is running any sort of cache.

– go to:
Dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings
and click the two delete transients and the delete orphaned variations buttons

– have you, or one of your plugins, been editing .htaccess in WordPress root? Rename it to take it out of play, then save permalinks again – this makes a new .htaccess.

– and a bit desperate by now but it works for some, run the delete old slugs module in Booster:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/woocommerce-jetpack/

@lorro

I tried all of your suggestions, to no avail.

I’m running all the latest versions.

I deactivated all plugins besides WooCommerce – no luck. I also deleted all themes but StoreFront, but that didn’t help either.

I don’t have a cache plugin (haven’t gotten that far with this site). I couldn’t find anything in my host’s documentation about them running any sort of cache, but it’s possible I’m wrong. Host is NameCheap.

I haven’t touched .htaccess for this site, but I did have a redirection plugin installed so I deactivated it, renamed my .htaccess file and saved permalinks to create a new one. But that didn’t solve the problem either.

I installed Booster and ran the delete old slugs module, but that didn’t fix it either.

Thank you so much for your help. Is there anything else you recommend I try?

The only 404’s I’ve seen are on the cart and checkout pages – have you activated your checkout process and set the right pages for them? Check your Woocommerce settings under checkout and woocommerce status to what pages they are set to show up on.

@katdidit

There are other 404s, I just don’t have them linked from the front page. The only pages that DO work are product pages, the shop page and the home page.

I checked the WooCommerce settings and they point to the correct pages.

Thanks for your tips

can you link me to one of the other pages?

the problems in your header links not your htaccess you are missing the header entries for canonical and shortlink and oembed/ between the wlmanifest and the woo gallery tags. My best guess for this is your theme, have you tried it with a vanilla theme?

link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" /

<link rel="canonical" href="https://yourdomain/cart/" />
<link rel='shortlink' href='https://yourdomain/?p=1215' />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/json+oembed" href="https://yourdomain/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=https~hash~yourdomain%2Fcart%2F" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml+oembed" href="https://yourdomain/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain%2Fcart%2F&format=xml" />
	

<noscript><style>.woocommerce-product-gallery{ opacity: 1 !important; }</style></noscript>

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@katdidit

Here are a few other links that aren’t working (along with any page I try to create now):

I don’t understand your other reply (sorry! I’m new to this). Not sure what you’re saying I should do with that code. Again, sorry for being so helpless.

With regard to theme, what themes would be considered “vanilla” that are WooCommerce compatible that I could try?

Thanks so much

Looks like the links disappeared. Trying again:

https://relianceventures.website/testing-123/

https://relianceventures.website/sample-page

Hey guys,

With some help from my hosting’s customer support, I figured out that the issue wasn’t with my permalink structure being saved, it was with the permalink structure itself.

Apparently if I set it to domain.site/category/product then I get this issue, but if I set it to domain.site/shop/category/product I’m fine.

Thanks so much for the help guys (and NameCheap customer support dude!)